13. Moses, Eleazar, and all the other leaders of the community went out of the camp to meet the army.
14. Moses was angry with the officers, the commanders of battalions and companies, who had returned from the war.
15. He asked them, “Why have you kept all the women alive?
16. Remember that it was the women who followed Balaam's instructions and at Peor led the people to be unfaithful to the Lord. That was what brought the epidemic on the Lord's people.
17. So now kill every boy and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse,
18. but keep alive for yourselves all the girls and all the women who are virgins.